NTU CCA Singapore presents Fish Story, to be continued, bringing together for the first time in Southeast Asia an important body of works by the late eminent American artist and photographer, theorist and photography historian, Allan Sekula. The exhibition will juxtapose three chapters from his ambitious project, Fish Story (1988–93) alongside video essay, Lottery of the Sea (2006) and his last film, The Forgotten Space (2010) co-directed with American film theorist Nöel Burch. These core works of Sekula's research on the maritime world underlines his sustained argument that the sea is the “forgotten space” of the contemporary global economy.

The key project, Fish Story, was created over a five-year period and considers global maritime trade as an integral part of capitalist market forces. Blurring the boundaries between academic essay, photography and socio-historical research, the exhibition Fish Story is structured in nine chapters, three of which are presented at NTU CCA Singapore. The opening chapter, Fish Story (Chapter 1), depicts travels from distant ports, focusing largely on the busy and abandoned harbour areas of California. Middle Passage (Chapter 3) charts the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific maritime space, in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Walking on Water (Chapter 9) closes the series and consists of slide shows produced in Warsaw during Poland's establishment of the first post-communist government.

The video essay, Lottery of the Sea is a geopolitical investigation of the contemporary maritime life. Structured in three movements that unfold as a voyage crossing Japan, Panama, and Spain, the title takes reference from pioneering political economist Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations (1776), which compared the risky life of the seafarer to gambling. A critical examination of global capitalism, The Forgotten Space profiles the supporting figures of the global economy: truck drivers in Los Angeles, factory workers in China, and Filipino migrant workers. Both films are conceived as extensions of a wider research on the ocean and global maritime trade to which Sekula has committed during the last 20 years of his artistic practice.

Through its presentation in Singapore and engagement with the maritime histories of Southeast Asia, Fish Story, to be continued hopes to reflect on the history of Singapore whose port activities contributed vastly to her economical growth—an added chapter and continuation of Sekula's important artistic research whose geographical expansion is open-ended.

Fish Story, to be continued will include works from the collections of Fond Regional d'art contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA 21), Vienna. The exhibition will be complemented by different events and interventions in The Lab and a film programme in The Single Screen. Fish Story, to be continued is situated under NTU CCA Singapore's narrative of PLACE.LABOUR.CAPITAL. that draws from transdisciplinary research addressing the complexities of a world in flux and the network of connections that such underlying elements define at both local and global scale.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to be inaugurating our stunning new space at the Old Hill Street Police Station with an equally stunning solo exhibition of works by the hugely talented Imelda Yukenbarri Gugaman. Coming from a rich family of artists, she is the eldest daughter of the highly acclaimed and accomplished painter Lucy Yukenbarri (deceased) and the world renowned Helicopter Tjungurrayi - not only a highly collectable artist in his own right, but famous for his exploits as a child when found almost starving in the desert by patrol workers, and one of the most senior law-men of the Northern-Central Deserts of Australia.

Imelda grew up a quiet and shy girl living in the dormitories at the Balgo Mission for a number of years, looked after by the nuns and she retains fond memories of this time along with a very strong sense of religion and family values. After attending the government school at Balgo until 1969, Imelda lived for a while in Beagle Bay where she met her husband. They started a family and after their second child they moved back to Balgo where they had 2 more children before his passing.

Imelda spent a lot of time with her mother when she was young and every weekend would paint alongside her, learning her Tjukurpa (dreamtime) and the ways of Indigenous culture. Her mother would explain the importance of passing on the stories they were painting and instilled into Imelda the need to pass them onto her children, and grandchildren, which she continues to do.

Despite the pressure of living up to very accomplished artists within her family, Imelda has proudly carried on the legacy of the painting style and stories of her mother, to which this body of work attests, yet has found a very appealing and unique style of her own in the process.

Winpurpurla, the place that Imelda calls “home”, is the first ever solo show for this talented artist. The works are an amazing affirmation of her painterly pointillism style, allowing the viewer into a very remote landscape of Indigenous Australia, creating meandering, three dimensional topographical maps of the soakage waterhole sites of her beloved country.

Imelda has travelled around Australia and overseas with her art, and recently travelled to Melbourne to attend the opening of “Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo” and dance with other Balgo artists at the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda. She was also one of the artists who travelled to Tokyo, Japan in 2010 for one of Warlayirti’s largest ever shows.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday, 5th August and runs until Saturday, 12th September 2015 and will be attended in person by Imelda, in what will be her first ever trip to Singapore. A must-see show for anyone interested in following the recent developments in Indigenous Art and an opportunity to meet a beautiful and talented proponent of one of the world’s oldest art forms.

The exhibition showcases 56 works created between 2012-2014 under various art residency programme in different countries, some of which has been exhibited for a year at “My Generation: Young Chinese Artists” presented by the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg last year. In addition, Sun Xun will paint live in ShanghART Singapore on “the spur of the moment”, the artwork will be presented alongside with the rest.

Rendez-vous is an international platform organized by the Biennial of Lyon; the Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes; and the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon. Now in its 13th edition, the platform invites curators from these institutions and 10 international biennales to nominate emerging artists at the forefront of their contemporary art scenes.

This exhibition—curated in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore—brings together existing and new works by 20 nominated artists from the 13th edition alongside works by 5 artists based in Singapore. This assembly of exemplary international artworks reflects the character of art exhibitions in the 21st century, which aim to contextualize artistic practices within a global framework by comparing artistic peers and the places in which they live and work. Facilitating the travel of artists and artworks to different locations, Rendez-vous also reflects a new turn in contemporary practice, in which cross-cultural relationships and experiences have become critical drivers for artistic creation.

Among the works in the exhibition are large-scale sculptures by Nicolas Momein (France) and Nikita Kadan (Ukraine), a special intervention in the gallery's architecture by Chun Kaifeng (Singapore), and Prepared Piano for Movers (Haussmann) (2012), a video by Angelica Mesiti (Australia) that explores creativity in everyday working life. On 31 July, the ICA Singapore will also present a film trilogy dedicated to the work of award-winning artist and filmmaker Sherman Ong (Singapore).